Leptolepis macrophthalmus
No picture of Leptolepis macrophthalmus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leptolepis macrophthalmus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeptolepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Leptolepididae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Leptolepididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Leptolepididae
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Leptolepis macrophthalmus on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Leptolepis macrophthalmus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leptolepis macrophthalmus and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Leptolepis macrophthalmus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Aspidorhynchus euodus1 site
- Caturus porteri1 site
- Colymbosaurus trochanterius1 site
- Lepidotus macrocheirus1 site
- Liopleurodon ferox1 site
- Ophioplax1 site
- Ophiotitanous smithi1 site
- Peloneustes philarchus1 site
- Pholidophorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Leptolepis macrophthalmus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Leptolepis macrophthalmus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Leptolepis macrophthalmus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Leptolepis macrophthalmus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLeptolepis through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1845